The most important news for Sunday, January 31st, 2010....
It turns out that Scott Brown - the Republican "hero" who pulled of a stunning upset by winning the election for the Senate seat in Massachusetts - is actually "pro-choice" and is completely in favor of Roe v. Wade.
Six more banks were seized by regulators on Friday, which brings the total number of banks that have failed so far in 2010 to 15.
A powerful hard-line Iranian cleric is calling for the execution of more opposition activists in order to silence anti-government protests.
Anatoly Isaikin, the head of the Russian state arms trader Rosoboronexport, says that no international agreements bar Russia from selling weapons to Iran.
The United States has begun beefing up its approach to defending its Persian Gulf allies against potential Iranian missile strikes.
The White House pledged on Friday to push "hard" to relaunch Middle East peace talks in 2010.
Are Americans about to fall into Obama's retirement trap?
The U.N. has finally begun a large-scale food distribution in Haiti's capital - nearly three weeks after the deadly earthquake.
Experts are warning that Haiti is heading towards a massive debt crisis because international help for the earthquake-hit country is being given in the form of new loans.
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake killed one person and injured 11 in southwest China early Sunday.
The Sukhoi T-50, the advanced new fighter jet that the Russians have been testing, is extremely impressive.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is accusing Russia of deliberately attempting to make the U.S. financial crisis of 2008 far worse.
China has suspended military exchanges with the U.S. and is threatening to impose sanctions on U.S. arms companies over a Washington decision to sell weapons to Taiwan.
Thousands of protesters from across Japan marched today in Tokyo to protest against the U.S. military presence on Okinawa. Why do we have 47,000 troops in Japan anyway?
In fact, it appears that the U.S. military has a very strong presence almost everywhere.
The Pentagon has announced that they are sending even more special forces troops to Yemen.
A new poll from the Pew Research Center reveals that most Americans know very little about what is going on in Washington D.C.
A spike in U.S. H1N1 deaths is raising concerns that the new H1N1 mutations may be spreading in the United States.
The Chinese government is denying that the H1N1 swine flu vaccine is causing a large number of miscarriages in that nation.
Could massive solar flares in 2012 mean the end of life as we know it?
A series of earthquakes is continuing to shake things up in the area around Yellowstone.
It turns out that genetically modified crops have been showing up everywhere - even in places where they are banned.
The emerging police state in the U.K. is so bizarre that it is sometimes hard to believe that it is actually real.
In fact, children as young as five in the U.K. are being told to fill in Big Brother-style forms which let councils snoop on intimate details about their home lives.
Lastly, it turns out that what commercials will air during this year's Super Bowl has become a political issue.
